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Antakya Slideshow
Top Hotels in Antakya
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Hotel Ottoman Palace Antakya
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Dedeman Antakya
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Buyuk Antakya
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Antik Beyazit Antakya
9 reviews
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Buyuk Ozcihan Hotel Antakya
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Onur Hotel Antakya
9 reviews
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Orontes Hotel Antakya
3 reviews
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Hotel Guney Antakya
6 reviews
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Grand Kavak Otel Antakya
1 review
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The Liwan Hotel Antakya
30 reviews
Antakya
Travel Blogs from Antakya, Turkey
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Ramazan Ends
This is a top pick! ... -natured, very real tensions do exist between the Turks and those of Kurdish ancestry. Just before we boarded our bus for Antakya, a diminutive man with rather glassy eyes and a grin plastered on his face (obviously celebrating Biram a little much, ...
I can see green again!
This is a top pick! Left Syria today and arrived in Antakya, Turkey with my group. The city is tucked into and running up some beautiful mountains. It is such a nice change to have a change in scenery. Seeing so many countries in such a ...
Antioch and the First Christian Church
This is a top pick! ... time, the priest chanted psalms. At the same time as the church cave, the Romans were firmly established in Antioch, called Antakya. A large number of well-preserved mosaics and sculpture testify to this, housed in the city museum. The ...
Left olympos with michael and kylie and we ...
This is a top pick! ... in the gutter again. Highpoint of the trip was a jacknifed ayran (milk) tanker in the middle of the road. Arrived at 9am in Antakya in on piece and got a bus to the Syrian town of Aleppo. In the bus station got approached by a few money changers ...
Antakya is beautiful
... and charge the cellphone so we can get in touch with S, our friend who has a farm, an oasis really, outside of Antakya. i meet a young woman while making the phone call and she ends up guiding us to our necessary destination all the while chatting with ...
one cıty 2 names lots of fun!
... ıng at noon and arrıve at 5pm then waıtıng tıll 6 15 untıl my bus carrıed on to antakya (hatay) Upon arrıvıng ı realısed the otogar (bus statıon) was located 7km out of town and there was ...
In Antioch
Made it by bus to Antioch, called either Antakya or Hatay by Turkey. The city has very little if any of its ancient walls, having been destroyed by earthquakes. Antioch was one of the main cities of the Roman Empire, where people were first called ...
We have a winner!
... and doing laundry. While I was looking forward to seeing all the of the ancient sites, they are mostly gone. Today, Antakya is only really notable for having a more arab feel than the rest of Turkey. This is mainly due to the fact that ...
Antakya en toute vers Chypre
Chypre : nous sommes en route . Guevan on arrive !!! Enfin j'espere (on a deja avale 8 de route depuis Petra a 7h00 AM et nous prenons un bus de nuit pour la turquie ce soir). Si tout va bien on prendra le ferry demain midi depuis Silifke (on arrive a ...
Taking the Turkey out of Turkey...
... a small tree (....bush.... shrub...) though and hopefully didn't scare too many of the locals... My final stop in Turkey was Antakya. Very much a Mediterranean town with the care free and friendly attitude to boot. Among other things, Antakya is ...
Antakya onward to Arabia
Took a very long and exhausting bus and minibus ride to Antakya, Turkey and Im currently at the bus terminal waiting for my 11AM bus to Aleppo, Syria. I had planned to enter Syria from Gaziantep, but after Hong shared his experience of taking one terrible ...
Farewell Turkey
... . The following day was far more sedate as we saw some of the most incredible mosaics. And finally on to Antakya, our border crossing into Syria. Turkey has truly exceeded all of our expectations and while we are excited to be moving on, we are also a ...
From Nigde to Antakya
... , treatment like this (See previous entry). Shortly out of Niğde I got a call on my cell phone from a fellow in Antakya. I am a member of a social network of travellers (sort of like Facebook). The essential idea is that one can "couchsurf" with ...
Top Ten Turkish Delights
... then you see an even better one. From the Acropolis at Bergama to the Gypsy Girl in Gaziantep to the Happy Hunchback of Antakya...... 10) The Buses. Apparently we come from the 4th wealthiest economy in the world and one of the most advanced and efficient ...
You Say Antakya, I Say Antioch
2nd May 2008 Not Much Doin' in Antioch Upon getting into Antioch/Antakya, meeting Koray and taking my gear to his apartment--a short walk from his university office--we met a university friend of his, Varol Topaç. The two of them treated me ...
Border town
... agency to bus station and then stop. The tourist's silvery-tongued guides cease and the tempest of Turco-Arabian Antakya begins. As a cyclist having travelled from central Europe, I was, to my jet-wash black marketeers very obviously insane and ...
Antakya - Stopover Before Syria
A couple of days in Antakya, close to the Syrian border. Stayed in Ekinci, a little village outside of town and a short Dolmus ride away. The accommodation was 2 joined "huts" built entirely out of mud and straw! It was here that the 11children of the ...
The Arab Antakya
... and walnuts) and a beer (Efes of course) - all for only 11 dollars, another bargain. So that concludes my time in Antakya - I really enjoyed this city, especially because of the food! Tomorrow I am off to Aleppo in Syria and am really looking forward to ...
Antakya
In English En espanol German Antakya Arrivée vers 20 heures, la ville semble plutôt glauque .. Déjà, la misère pour trouver un hôtel: mon bouquin donne une adresse à éviter, mais malheureusement, tous les autres n'ont que des chambres ...
MOVING DAY ANTAKYA TURKEY
... and stopped at the WC. So the bus just kept on moving forward with us walking behind slowly catching up on it. The ride into Antakya, Turkey was only 1 hour. We passed a truck that had flipped over. The road is so narrow most of the way to the edge ...
ST. PETER'S CHURCH THE FIRST CHURCH
... cave which is now known as St. Peter's Church. This was between the years 29 and 40. In 1098 the crusaders who conquered Antakya extended the church with two arches on the front. The floor still has some traces of mosaic tiles and there was a fresco ...
A good sign?
Hmmm, in the last few days I have seen a very steady increase in the number of emails I am getting from recruiting agents back in London - is this a good sign that the economy is improving? The number of emails I am recieving is up quite a lot from even ...
Ancient Antioch
Today we headed for Turkey's Mediterranean coast to Antakya, a town situated close to the border with Syria. Along the way we stopped at Gumusler Monastery which has some amazing and brilliant frescoes. It is a bit off the highway, but well ...
Hitching to Syria (part 3)
... in the cab with Okay. He turned out to be far more than his name suggested, not only driving us the whole way to Antakya (our destination and his home town), but also buying us drinks, melon and a full dinner. Then to cap it all ...
Bab al-Hawa crossing
November 15, 2007 Antakya, Turkey Antakya or Hayat (almost every town in Turkey has two names and they both are recognized by the people) was the site of the Biblical Antioch where St. Peter visited and later wrote a letter back to some people he met ...
Nusaybin - Adana - Antakya
Itinerary : Nusaybin - Adana - Antakya Dates : 25th to 26th of November 2007 Mileage in Turkey : 1560 km Mileage so far : 16960 km. We were suppose to be riding in Jordan for already 2 days but guess where we are!...Still in Turkey! Indeed, we are ...
Ancient Antioch
... to me. Well, it's just another city - nothing too special. I stopped briefly to check out the famed mosaics in the Antakya Museum. They were mostly taken from nearby Harbiye (ancient Daphne). Some were good, but the more I visit these sites the more I ...
In Turkey!
... the landscape as I make my way north. There are some really nice looking smallish mountains here that I'd like to climb already! I'm in Antakya, which doesn't seem to get all that much praise in the guidebook, but I quite like it... there's the mountain ...
ANTAKYA TO CAPPRADOCIA
... and the other said 8. Were we ever surprised. It was an enjoyable ride through the hilly country side heading out of Antakya, we really climbed high over these mountains, and then down to the Mediterranean Sea with palm trees on our left side and ...
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